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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. Yes, do start with the pirate metrics (from Dave McClure's 2007 talk ) so you can focus on the value you can provide. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress. That's the bounce-back to pre-agile ways of working.

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Why the Technology Economy Matters

BCG

(Technology intensity is a proprietary metric that analyzes technology spending relative to a company’s and an industry’s revenues and to their operating expenses.). For example, annual productivity growth in the US from 2007 through 2015 hovered at a sluggish 1.3% average rate, half the rate from 2000 to 2007.

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Ensure Success by Predicting Failure: Testing Design Solutions with Premortem Analysis

Kates Kesler

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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Ensure Success by Predicting Failure: Testing Design Solutions with Premortem Analysis

Kates Kesler

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive.

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Good News: Investors Cut Gold Holdings to Six-Year Low; Good Timin'

MishTalk

metric tons, or 0.3 We were there in 2000, 2007, and it's going to happen again. Investors cut holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products to the lowest since 2009 as surging stock markets from the U.S. to China hurt demand and prospects for rising U.S. interest rates boosted the dollar. The assets contracted 5.45

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business

Personal credit scores like FICO consider a combination of metrics such as payment history, current level of indebtedness, and types of credit used by potential small business borrowers. And early reports from the architects of these newer algorithms caution how long it takes to thoughtfully incorporate new metrics into the models.